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The mission of the National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness (NIPFC) is to advance permanency for all children and youth, with Family Finding as a core strategy and a method that adds value to service systems. Let's Have a Conversation is our podcast that brings together ideas, practice, and discovery of youth services to promote innovation and discussion in the field.
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Episode 18 - Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO) Shared Practice Model
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Designed with a vision of equity, Ohio’s new shared practice model is PACT — Practice in Action Together. PACT has been developed for (and by) public children services agencies: caseworkers, supervisors, and agency leaders working alongside families, former foster youth, academics, and other experts. In this 18th episode of “Let’s Have a Conversati…
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Episode 17 - Upfront Family Finding Los Angeles County DCFS
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Numbers can reveal profound narratives and the story of Upfront Family Finding in Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is inspiring. In the space of two years, LA County DCFS has seen a remarkable increase in the percentage of children initially placed in out-of-home care with kin, from 11% in 2021 to 43% in 2023. DC…
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Episode 16 - Allambi Care: Implementing Family Centered Practice (Part 2)
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Allambi Care is a multi-disciplined and recognised leader in the human services field working across Newcastle, the Hunter, the NSW Central Coast and Victoria. We are committed to supporting our community’s most vulnerable people through tailored services and programs. We include a family finding case study experience regarding a young Aboriginal y…
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Episode 15 - Allambi Care: Implementing Family Centered Practice (Part 1)
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Allambi Care is a multi-disciplined and recognised leader in the human services field working across Newcastle, the Hunter, the NSW Central Coast and Victoria. We are committed to supporting our community’s most vulnerable people through tailored services and programs. We include a family finding case study experience regarding a young Aboriginal p…
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Episode 14- Todo Por Mi Familia- A Story of Healing for Families Separated at the Border
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Seneca Family of Agencies, a non-profit mental health agency, is leading Todo Por Mi Familia, a nationwide effort to connect impacted families with mental health assessments and treatment. Over the last two years, Seneca supported the class action lawsuit as a pro bono expert witness and consultant. Seneca is coordinating referrals to local mental …
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Episode 12- Frontloading Family Finding in a Public Child Welfare Agency
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This is the second of our three segments with Outagamie County Child Welfare to review the last 5 years of their work to install and implement family finding. We dive into the importance of front loading the family finding intervention to prevent isolation and loneliness of young people from the very beginning and the discussion also references the…
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Episode 13- Forging System Alignment in Public Child Welfare
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This is the third and final segment of our conversation with Outagamie County Child Welfare, to discuss their journey to install and implement family finding since 2014. In this episode the remaining staff share more success stories, further discuss the importance of alignment, and identify some of the necessary system changes to sustain the practi…
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Episode 11- The Leadership Journey to Install and Implement Family Finding
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Back 2014 NIPFC was contracted to train across the state of Wisconsin in 5 regionalized county sites to assist with the phase implementation of their family finding practices statewide. One of the counties was Outagamie, Director Bob Friend checked in with division manager Melissa Blum and family finding supervisors Jennifer Sailor to find out abou…
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Episode 10- Sustaining Family Involvement
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In our 10th episode of our "Let's Have a Conversation" podcast series Director Bob Friend connects with Kelli DeCook and Renaux Swancutt of Family Service Rochester, as well as Laurie Tochiki from Epic `Ohana. They converse how they've maintained 20 years of quality practice in family conferences. Let us know how we're doing. Rate our episodes and …
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In our 9th episode of our "Let's Have a Conversation" podcast series, Director Bob Friend connects with Joey Cordero to hear his story as a parent in the child welfare system, and how the successful resolution of the matter and subsequent reunification with his young daughter led to a life and career change that has evolved to helping other fathers…
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In our 8th episode of our "Let's Have a Conversation" podcast series, Director Bob Friend converses with attorney and fellow NIPFC trainer, Kelly Beck, and Martin Henderson, founder of Fatherhood Matters, Inc. in San Antonio, Texas. The discussion delves into their work to include fathers in Juvenile Dependency Court in child custody proceedings.…
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Episode 7-Listening to and Learning from Lived Experience
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We're excited to release another episode of our podcast “Listening to and Learning from lived Experience.” Program manager at NACAC Kim Stevens directs efforts to expand post-adoption services throughout the United States and Canada, providing training and support to parent and youth leaders. She sits down with Bob and discusses how her work with t…
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We're excited to release another episode of our podcast. Melanie Sheetz, Executive Director of the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition in Missouri, and Mike Kenney, co-founder and Executive Director of Kinnect in Ohio, share their common story to install and implement the 30 Days to Family model in 9 Ohio counties to address the impact of the opioid…
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Episode 5 - Family Finding Practice Abroad
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We're excited to release another episode of our podcast. Kevin Campbell describes his international travel experiences to NIPFC's Mike Mertz, comparing the approaches in social work amongst different cultures and communities.
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Episode 4 - Convergence of 21st Century Science with the Wisdom of the Ages
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We're excited to release the final episode of our four part podcast series with Kevin Campbell. NIPFC director, Bob Friend, sits with Kevin while he describes the shift of justifying family finding to it being understood as a human right.
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Episode 3 - The Impact of "Casework as Usual" on Innovative Practice
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We're excited to release the third of our four part podcast series with Kevin Campbell. NIPFC director, Bob Friend, sits with Kevin as he looks back on his experiences and the combined effort that went into the passing of the Fostering and Connections Act of 2008, and the impact on current practice.
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In part two of four, NIPFC director, Bob Friend, chats with Kevin Campbell about the experiences he has had witnessing the impact of the connection of loved ones with youth who have been in and out of the foster care and child protection system.
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Episode 1 - The History of Family Finding
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NIPFC director, Bob Friend, sits down with Kevin Campbell about the origin, evolution, and future of Family Finding. In Part 1 of 4, Kevin explains to Bob what inspired him to develop the Family Finding Model.
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